Mozdev.org Board Members

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Alexandre Simon - Lawyer

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Alexandre Simon - Lawyer

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A New York Associate with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP

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Experience
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+ Information Technology and Outsourcing: Counsels clients in technology and corporate transactions, including joint ventures and strategic alliances, licensing, consulting, development and manufacturing, support and maintenance, Web services, and information technology and business process outsourcing. Works with both public companies and start-ups in technology development, arts and entertainment, Web-based products and services, and biotech. Advises clients in connection with all aspects of their e-commerce and new media initiatives, including online and offline privacy issues, electronic agreements, Web-based auctions and exchanges, online services and software distribution, and information and network security. Intellectual property work covers copyright, trademark, patent and fair use issues. Corporate and Securities: Advises clients in M&A and venture capital transactions with respect to the purchase and sale of intellectual property rights and technology assets

Education
+ New York University School of Law, J.D., 2001  McGill University, B.A., 1998

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Languages
+ French (fluent)  Spanish (conversational)

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AdmittedNew York

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Brian King - Token Slovenian Irishman

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Brian King - Token Slovenian Irishman

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Brian has been hacking on Mozilla and related projects since early 1999. It began
+ with a European funded project called Fabula
+ to create software for children with the aim of teaching minority languages like
+ Basque, Catalan, Frisian, Irish and Welsh. This was built using Mozilla. Interest
+ bloomed and he started contributing to the Mozilla Editor, and exploring the rest
+ of the vast body of code. He moved on to work at ActiveState
+ where he was heavily involved in the Komodo project, a scripting language IDE that
+ uses the Mozilla application framework.

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Previously, Brian spent his time as a C++ applications developer,
+ interspersed with some Perl development and XML consultancy.
+ His technical interests include observing and participating in
+ the re-shaping of the web environment brought about by XML.
+ Other languages he codes in are PHP, Python, and JavaScript.

Brian is currently COO and Senior Developer at Mozdev Group Inc., a Mozilla technologies services company.

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Chris Neale - Standards Monkey

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+Chris has been involved in the Mozilla community since 2002.
+Initially bughunting in the Orbit3 theme, then taking over its development in May 2002. Other theme work followed, notably
+in September 2002 Chris was contracted by Linspire Inc. (then Lindows.com)
+President & COO Kevin Carmony to make LindowsOS Orbit (Orbit Retro in green). In addition to providing Lindows.com with a theme, September 2002 also saw Chris take over the running of the mozdev themes project.

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On the extensions front, initial forays include porting chromEdit to jslib from the original snippets.mozdev.org source by Andrew Wooldridge, again in September 2002 and porting the Link Toolbar to Phoenix in February 2003.
+Chris is currently on the core admin team at mozdev.org and works as a part-time consultant for Mozdev Group Inc.

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In “real life” Chris is CTO and senior web developer at Elogicom Ltd., a small company in his locality.

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Chris Neale - Standards Monkey

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David Boswell - MozDev co-Founder

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David Boswell - MozDev co-Founder

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David has been involved in the Mozilla community for over 3 years. He
+started the Mozilla development effort at Alphanumerica and set up the
+first two Mozilla Developer Meetings.
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At Alphanumerica David worked with Pete Collins on a number of Mozilla
+applications including Aphrodite, Total Recall and Chameleon. Pete and
+David also founded mozdev.org, a site offering free hosting for Mozilla
+applications. There are currently over 70 development projects hosted on
+the site.
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David has also written a number of articles about Mozilla including
+‘Getting Your Work Into Mozilla’ and a series of articles discussing how
+to use Mozilla technologies to create a Pacman-like video game. He is
+currently working for CollabNet on a number of other open source projects.

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Myk Melez - mozilla.org

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Myk Melez - mozilla.org

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Myk Melez has been working with Mozilla since 1999, when he started
+using the browser as a DHTML application platform. In 2000 he wrote ForumZilla, a weblog reader,
+and since 2001 he has been working as a webtools hacker for mozilla.org. He was responsible for
+numerous improvements to Bugzilla
+including its enhanced attachment handling and code-review request
+features, and he wrote Doctor,
+a web interface for updating mozilla.org's CVS-based web site.

Experience
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+ Information Technology and Outsourcing: Represents clients in complex and mission critical technology transactions --outsourcing, licensing, joint venture, and strategic alliance transactions. Represents clients in intellectual property purchases and sales and in reviews of IP portfolios in relation to corporate financing and M&A transactions. Advises on cross-border technology transfer. Advises on development and testing arrangements, distribution channels, technology deployment and electronic commerce and internet strategies. Expert on privacy laws as they relate to electronic databases and online services. Ranked one of the top IT & Outsourcing attorneys in New York by Chambers and Partners. Chambers stated "Interviewees view him as a "wonderful lawyer who remains calm under pressure ."

Pete got involved with the Mozilla project in April 1999 as a contributor to the
+ Editor module. He was also the first external developer to start documenting XUL.
+ His initial efforts were a remote, web enabled script editor and a community
+ driven rewrite of the existing Mozilla UI -- a project later named Aphrodite.

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In January 2000, he joined with David Boswell and the Alphanumerica
+ (later Collabnet) team.
+ Together they evangelized Mozilla as a viable Application Platform through
+ the many projects they created and Mozilla developer meetings they organized.

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He moved on to become a software engineer employed by WorldGate,
+ working on customizing Mozilla for their TV Internet Client Software.
+ He is the co-founder of mozdev.org a site
+ dedicated to Mozilla based projects.
+ He is a regular Mozilla committer and owner of various Mozdev projects including
+ jslib and xptk, the
+ cornerstones to the MozdevGroup product range.